News: digital

US marketing tech company acquires Bloodhound Books

US-based marketing tech company Open Road Media (OR/M) has acquired UK e-book specialist indie Bloodhound Books for an undisclosed sum. Read more

Junior and mid-career employees hit 'really hard' by WFH set-up, survey finds

Younger and early to mid-career employees are more likely to struggle with their working from home set-up, a survey conducted by the Oxford-based branches at the... Read more

Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton and Weruche Opia star in 'Our House' adaptation

Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton, Rupert Penry-Jones and Weruche Opia are to star in the ITV adaptation of Louise Candlish's thriller, Our House (Simon & Schuster).... Read more

Head of Zeus teams up with Cox's Pop-Up Submissions YouTube show

Head of Zeus has teamed up with agent and author Peter Cox's YouTube show “Pop-Up Submissions” in a partnership which could lead to publication for... Read more

Soyinka and Rooney to headline Southbank Centre's autumn season

Wole Soyinka and Sally Rooney will headline the Southbank Centre’s autumn season, while the organisation has also announced its London Literature Festival, which this year takes its... Read more

LoveAudio campaign returns with online events

#LoveAudio, the Publishers Association's annual audiobook campaign, will return for a fifth year this month. Read more

Harris, Millwood Hargrave and Lee in Richard & Judy's Summer Book Club selection

Robert Harris, Michael Robotham and debut novelist Robinne Lee are among the six authors selected for Richard & Judy's Summer Book Club, in a line-up dominated by... Read more

Ishiguro, Stuart and Evaristo to feature at hybrid Edinburgh International Book Festival

Kazuo Ishiguro, Douglas Stuart and Bernardine Evaristo are among authors appearing at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, which will take place in August as... Read more

Post-Brexit charges hit retailers as presses call for government support on VAT

UK retailers say they are being impacted by post-Brexit costs as indie publishers call for the government to assist on VAT charges that have halted... Read more

BookBar launches first in-person events

Bookshop, wine bar, events and social space BookBar is launching its first in-person events next month. Read more

Ben Whishaw to play Kay in BBC's This is Going to Hurt series

Casting has been announced and the first images released of the BBC adaptation of This is Going to Hurt (Picador), with Ben Whishaw starring as Adam... Read more

Reading is Magic Festival returns with Cowell, Rosen and Biddulph

The Reading is Magic Festival, a children's digital books festival created during last year’s lockdown and inspired by Cressida Cowell, will return this autumn as a five-day... Read more

Rise of 'hybrid authors' as writers buy back their rights

The “rise of the hybrid author” was discussed at London Book Fair, with the prediction that writers will increasingly buy back rights to their own books from publishers. ... Read more

Publishers and libraries must work together on e-book pricing, IPG hears

Libraries and publishers must work together to bridge the divide over e-book pricing, the IPG’s summer webinar heard this week. Read more

Galbraith series hits audiobook milestone ahead of paperback launch

J K Rowling's Cormoran Strike series, written under the name Robert Galbraith, have hit an audiobook milestone for Little, Brown ahead of the fifth novel's... Read more